Bill Woodcock wrote:
> Or, are you saying that an anycast host has to be a router running BGP ?
No, typically they run OSPF.
Perhaps a little further explanation may help Marshall... think: a *nix box running zebra, connected to a router.
> This works for DNS, but not for the things I would like to anycast.
Mmm, like what? This is all ancient history at this point... It seems unlikely that anyone would discover something that didn't work at this late date.
Just as a guess, Marshall is probably thinking of using anycast for something other than DNS, like http, or ftp, or telnet. And he's wondering about state ;-) Chat with Genuity.new about what they did with Hopscotch from Genuity.orig. It used to deal with that. http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='6185619'.WKU.&OS=PN/6185619&RS=PN/6185619 or http://www.delphion.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/US06185619__ -- Rodney Joffe CenterGate Research Group, LLC. http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(R)